Authorities identify man found dead in Golden Gate Park
A man found dead in western Golden Gate Park Sunday has been identified as 55-year-old David Borowy of San Francisco.
Police considered Borowy’s death to be suspicious, reports SF Weekly and the Bay City News service, and the San Francisco Medical Examiner has not stated a cause for his death.
Police received a report at about 5:35 p.m. Sunday regarding an area near the intersection of John F. Kennedy Drive and Bernice Rodgers Way, also known as South Fork Drive, in Golden Gate Park. There, police found a dead man later identified as Borowy.
Bay City News reports that San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr mentioned Borowy’s death Tuesday in a hearing regarding renovations proposed for the nearby Beach Chalet soccer fields:
Police Chief Greg Suhr mentioned the death when he appeared at a San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing on Tuesday night to testify about safety concerns in the area near the Beach Chalet soccer fields.
The board approved plans to install synthetic turf and lighting at the soccer fields. Suhr has previously said that the lighting would help reduce illicit activity such as drug use and prostitution in the area.
Residents near the west end of the park have complained for decades that the area near the soccer fields and two windmills has been a haven not only for people soliciting sex in the bushes, but also for people who prey on them, selling them drugs or robbing them and other park users.
I love when public safety officials grab at random straw evidence tax payer funded advocacy in support of publicly funded and taxpayer financed boondoggle development schemes proposed by their sister publicly funded agencies.
Of course there is not a single iota of support for Suhr’s wild allegation that destroying habitat in GG Park will improve public safety, or that this particular death/incident has anything to do with the project he showed up to boost. Wearing uniform no doubt.
Seemed to work perfect tho as the proposal to dump old tires across acres of GG Park was approved by the Sups over obvious violation of the Coastal Act. In all likelihood this half-baked project is DOA at CCC.
Nimby Nimby Nimby Nimby Nimby Nimby Nimby Nimby Nimby Nimby
Don’t like the towers of high-powered lights, but glad if the project will improve the safety of this seedy end of the park.
Bummer, I live on Lincoln and La Playa….with all the transients coming through, using the 76 Station as a shower and toilet (they just go outside since there’s no bathroom there), it’s getting pretty bad.
I’m hoping the PD at the Taraval Station have a better presence over in this area. Maybe even SFPD’s Honda Unit, that’d be great.
-Evan
Cops on horses and bikes need to patrol this area more often especially on the weekends.